I have been talking with Jay and there is only an outside chance for a brief period of snow tonight. The steadier, accumulating snows will stay to the north of us.

Areas that lose their snow cover today have the least chance for a period of snow.Here what is expected to happen....Early afternoon temps are up to 40 degrees so the snow continues to melt. It is melting slower because of the ice content.The air is dry so when the moisture moves in tonight, it will take a while for the atmosphere to become saturated. As this happens, the temperature aloft will fall due to evaporative cooling. This process is what would produce any snow around here and it is still questionable if that will drop the temperature enough aloft.Snowpack areas will have cooler air at the surface and aloft so snow is more likely to occur there.By early Saturday, the winds aloft out of the south will bring in enough warm air to make sure it is all rain in Kentucky and much of southern Indiana.

The heaviest snow will be across central Illinois and central Indiana well north of I-70 with 5-7 inches possible along I-70 and 6-9 inches further north in northern Indiana. Areas in Indiana along and north of interstate 70 are now under a Winter Storm WARNING.
The 4 inch snow risk from the WPC shows that heavy snow well to our north. The map is through 7 AM tomorrow and more snow is likely during the morning hours in northern and central Indiana.

On the back side of the system, some flurries or snow showers are possible here Saturday evening.

Freezing rain caused a lot of problems from Kansas City to Springfield, MO this morning.As the storm heads east, it will become mostly snow in the frozen precip. areas and rain in the warmer areas.

A quick check of all of the models out to Christmas shows that only one model has any snow chance late next week through Christmas Day. We will continue to monitor as I always like to hold out some hope for snow for Christmas.